PEKIN — Months before he turns 19, Gage King already has notched four burglary convictions and 11½ years worth of prison sentences on his criminal record.

Prosecutors chose to file only one burglary charge after King, of Peoria, and another man were arrested in April for allegedly breaking into more than 50 vehicles in Pekin over the previous month.

His guilty plea in that case, however, produced a 5½-year prison term last week.

Prosecutors apparently could file a fifth burglary charge against King, based on the story his alleged partner told about the home break-in the two committed days before their April arrests.

That man, Gabriel Thompson, also 18, was charged last week with the April 11 burglary of a home in the 400 block of Christopher Street in which he and King allegedly stole video game equipment from the home where Thompson had temporarily lived.

Thompson, who is listed in court records as homeless, has been in custody since he and King were arrested about a week after that crime.

He is scheduled to next appear in court July 14 on both that case and the single burglary charge that, similar to King’s, was filed in the wake of their alleged vehicle burglary spree. Court records indicate Thompson is under consideration for a probation term connected to drug addiction treatment.

King has used up his share of those kinds of breaks provided through alternative sentencing programs.

Last August he was sentenced to six years in prison after pleading guilty to three charges of burglary and one of possessing stolen property.

Those cases stemmed from one night two months earlier when he broke into three vehicles, was caught inside a closed business by its owner and tried to flee from police in a stolen pickup truck.

The six-year term came with a recommendation that the state Department of Corrections consider him for its Impact Incarceration Program. King was accepted and was released in six months after meeting the program requirements.

By mid-April he and Thompson had broken into dozens of parked vehicles in Pekin, according to a prosecutor’s court affidavit.

His arrest came a week after Thompson was caught breaking into a vehicle and identified King as his partner in the spree.